1. The Black Crowes’ Amorica is just an all-around stellar album.
2. Kyuss was the most important band of the ’90s.
3. Valerie Bertinelli is so hot–and also so lucky.
4. The Clash should have made even more reggae songs.
5. Hendrix’s “If 6 Was 9” is not only awesome, but also so true.
6. Quadrophenia is completely biblical.
7. The guitars on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless sound like whales having sex–and those whales are totally high.
8. That kid from the Streets is like Dylan or Lennon or something.
9. “The Man” is out to stomp on not only our buzz but also our right to download loosely executed songs featuring hand drums.
10. The Chronic is the best hip-hop album of 2002.

1. “I’m mad old-school.”
2. “I love you so much–Can I have another bump?”
3. “Do you have a pen cap or a key I can borrow?”
4. “Wow, Digweed doesn’t sound like shit anymore!”
5. “And I mean, it’s like we’re all linked together on the inside. Like we’re bound together by this beat, and–oh shit–I gotta puke!”

Prescription Drugs Rock Stars Enjoy (Or, Six Things Found in Elvis’ Stomach When He Died)

* Codeine
* Demerol
* Nembutal
* Morphine
* Quaaludes
* Valium

Most Poignant Eulogy Ever for a Drug-Related Death:
“Somebody was jumping up and down on his fuckin’ knob in a hotel room in Las Vegas, charlie’d off his tits! Fuckin’ respect, man!” –Noel Gallagher on late Who bassist John Entwistle, who died of a cocaine-related heart attack in 2002